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David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
Beatrice Pire (Ed.)
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Description for David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing variety of readers of all ages and backgrounds not only in the English-speaking countries but all over the world, while describing all the malcontents, dead ends and solipsistic tendencies of contemporary civilisation? Presences of the Other counteracts the vision of Wallaces postmodern oeuvre as selfishly self-absorbed, narcissistic or confining and attempts to answer the question of its appeal by addressing it as an open work, following Umberto Ecos definition of great texts. Epitomised in the missing questions of Brief ... Read more
Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing variety of readers of all ages and backgrounds not only in the English-speaking countries but all over the world, while describing all the malcontents, dead ends and solipsistic tendencies of contemporary civilisation? Presences of the Other counteracts the vision of Wallaces postmodern oeuvre as selfishly self-absorbed, narcissistic or confining and attempts to answer the question of its appeal by addressing it as an open work, following Umberto Ecos definition of great texts. Epitomised in the missing questions of Brief ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198404
SKU
V9781845198404
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99-50
About Beatrice Pire (Ed.)
Beatrice Pire is associate professor of American literature at University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris. She is the author Hart Crane, l'Ame travagante, numerous articles on contemporary American fiction (Jonathan Franzen, Rick Moody, Philip Roth) and book reviews and profiles in the French press (le Monde, le Magazine litteraire). Assistant professor of American literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III), Pierre-Louis ... Read more
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